** "I think I've always been fascinated by people who have certain jobs, that allow them to enter into a moral universe which may be beyond their immediate understanding - and I've always felt that creates a kind of dark humor."

Guest Of Honour: Canadian director Atom Egoyan, most noted for Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter, is on the line from Toronto to talk about his latest workplace noir satire. Delving into the eccentric psyche of a food inspector played by David Thewlis, who pushes ethical boundaries when it comes to the temptations of power.

          Atom Egoyan (Wikimedia, Photo: Seda Grigoryan )

** "Truth Be Told is really an exploration of how the phenomenon of true crime stories has put an emphasis on entertainment, on sensationalizing those crimes - and sacrificing the effects that it has on the people involved, and the wrongly incarcerated.

A Conversation With Elizabeth Perkins: The veteran actress discusses what she's been up to lately with Truth Be Told, Weeds and The Moodys. And a surprise choice of what has meant the most to her over the years.

Poetry Corner: Black History Month - Focus On Edward Kamau Brathwaite.

Comedy Corner: No laughing matter Syrian comedy.

Plus...Who is Cyber Rambo, and what does he have to do with fascism in Latin America, on Twitter?

Arts Express: Dare To Be Different Radio

THE MISOGYNISTS MOVIE REVIEW

Turkish-American filmmaker, actor and painter Onur Tukel appears to be at it again as with Catfight, seemingly going for the collective audience jugular and onscreen as well, with The Misogynists. Packing an arsenal of frenzied, maniacal conversation noir as a bleak starting point, then leaping off into the psychotic void of the US politically and racially divisive culture, Tukel taps into the deranged nuttiness of what transpired during the entirely unexpected presidential electoral victory of Trump back in 2016. And with The Misanthropes in release nearly four years later, the timing nevertheless could not be more toxic and relevant today.

Set primarily in an upscale New York City hotel room rented by a nasty drunk, corporate executive Cameron (Dylan Baker), the evening proceeds as Trump is suddenly declared the winner on TV. Followed by a bizarre procession of visitors, some doused in beer and cocaine, including colleagues, hookers and neighbors complaining about all the noise. And with Trump's victory serving as a Pandora's Box catalyst for release of the worst verbally repressed racism and sexism in this country.

But what is most unusual about The Misogynists, is that the notorious locker room style Trump sex talk is a masculinized point of view as crafted here by Tukel, a prominent figure in the NYC indie film community, rather than say, feminist filmmakers. Which serves as an unusual and intriguing male spotlight self-critiquing that gender's behavior instead. And a uniquely penetrating if characteristically at times over the top and grotesque endeavor by Tukel. In other words, a savagely unrelenting excursion into the way men talk when women aren't around, and even when they are, while in an uninhibited, inebriated outpouring of venomous male bonding as well. 

Prairie Miller